CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-1470

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
8.13%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Summary

OpenLDAP in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid LDAP request that triggers an assert error.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash the LDAP service, potentially disrupting applications that depend on the directory.

Recommendation

Update Mac OS X to a newer version that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

OpenLDAP in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid LDAP request that triggers an assert error.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS